On my most recent post, I quoted extensively from an engaging interview with Sam Beam of Iron & Wine which appeared in Paste magazine. You can link to that post here. He commented that the three main topics which he believes will really affect someone as a human being are: love; God; and death.

Are those the topics that really seperate “great” art (in whatever media i.e painting, sculpture, photography, literature, film, music, whatever) from “good” art? For me, I think that notion certainly rings very true. Faced with any one of those issues in isolation and, in our most quiet and honest moments, I reckon that we stop pretending.

I asked what these things would look or sound like?

For me, I think it might be something very much like the attached you tube clip. This is a song that speaks more truth to me about these subjects than many others. The video is something that has not been prepared by some high budget commission by the musician involved, but is simply someone having lovingly story-boarded the sentiment and imagery and story of the song. The result gets me every time I watch and listen to it. I know there can be a tendency to skip people’s video links on blogs, but I would encourage you to click the arrow below and watch this.

"The priest in the booth had a photographic memory for all he had heard.
He took all of my sins and he wrote a pocket novel called "The State That I'm In"".
From "The State I Am In" by Belle and Sebastian

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